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Small-Scale Question Sunday for September 8, 2024

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

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Lots of people manage without eating fruits and vegetables. Vitamin c is the big issue, but Jordan Peterson presumably gets that from fresh steak. Fiber is the other problem but it’s manageable.

Eating a healthy meat-only diet isn’t that hard, though it is expensive. The key is the right fat/protein ratio and eating fresh meat in appropriate portion sizes.

As far as I understand it any vitamin C in raw meat is substantially reduced by cooking, regardless of the freshness of the meat. Maybe he eats extremely rare steak?

There is a hypothesis that vitamin c is only necessary for digesting/using carbs, and that is why inuit/carnivore diets seem to do fine without it.

Wiki says:

Vitamin C is obtained [among the Inuit] through sources such as reindeer liver, kelp, muktuk, and seal brain;